title: Use of an administrative database to determine clinical management and outcomes in congenital heart disease.
abstract: We review our 16-year experience using the large, multi-institutional database of the University HealthSystem Consortium to study management and outcomes in congenital heart surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, transposition of the great arteries, and neonatal coarctation. The advantages, limitations, and use of administrative databases by others to study congenital heart surgery are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Howard P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Gutgesell
authors.forename: Diane G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Hillman
authors.forename: Kimberly E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: McHugh
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dean
authors.forename: G Paul
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Matherne
keywords: aorta/aortic; congenital heart disease (CHD); congenital heart surgery; database (all types)